September 10, 2015

You’ve got your outline done, your story plotted out, and you’re ready to start flushing out the story. You sit down at the keyboard (or grab your pencil, or your fountain pen, marker, or crayon – whatever you choose to use), and you start writing. The words are flowing, except there’s one tiny problem; they’re all the same words. Well, not all the same words, but you find yourself repeating certain words. And that’s all you can see when you look back over your work. No worries, you can just pop on over to Thesaurus.com and replace some of the instances.

But surf around a while and you’ll find there’s a lot more help out there for getting unstuck over word choices.

Wondering if what you’re writing makes any sense? Try checking out the Skeptic’s Dictionary, which delves into “definitions, arguments, and essays on hundreds of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions.”